New Years

New Years is always an exciting holiday to celebrate. What's your new years resolution? Some common resolutions are spend more time with family and friends, exercise at the gym, loose weight (eat better), quit smoking, enjoy life more, quit drinking, get out of debt, learn something new, help others, and get organized. My new years resolution is to get out of debt for sure! If you have a new years resolution you would like to share, post it! Happy New Year! 2012 will be a fantastic year!

Christmas Tradition

Christmas is a very special time when my family gets together to celebrate and spend time that is cherished. We eat food from turkey all the way to tamales. Just thinking about the food makes me hungry! After we eat, we all engage in playing a competitive game such as MAD GAB or Taboo. It gets intense... While all this is happening we of course share the gifts we received and plan shopping trips to spend the gift cards. That is my family tradition in Salida. In Denver with my other family, we open gifts on Christmas Eve and go to church to watch a Christmas play. Then we all get together on Christmas day and eat! I'm always looking forward to Christmas gatherings... You always have enough food to last you for weeks!

Internship Readiness

Someone who is internship ready must prepare themselves to have outstanding qualities to show their managers that they are ready and motivated to work in their work place. Some examples of excellent qualities are organizational skills, be prepared, having confidence in yourself, staying focused on whatever task you are working on, always having an open mind, be willing to learn new things, have a hunger for more information, keep a positive attitude, ask questions if you're unsure of anything, BE ON TIME, and always make sure that you are managing your time well and getting tasks done ahead of time so you can proofread for any errors. Before your internship it will be important to demonstrate all these important qualities so your manager will be impressed with your outstanding characteristics. Some ways to demonstrate these characteristics in Mod 3 are by asking questions if you are unsure about anything, participate in class discussion, participate in extra curricular activities, get involved in community service opportunities, and do homework ahead of time for the best quality. Some changes I am planning on making in order to be ready for my internship are managing my time better, raise my hand often in class discussions, get more involved in what Year Up has to offer, make sure I get clarity on my assignments, and have a positive motivational attitude. It is key that we all take this time we have very seriously so that we can go to our internship prepared to be hired on full time.

Best and Worst Job

 Working at Boys and Girls Club in Colorado would have to be one of the best jobs I've ever had. I was responsible for helping youth grow into becoming responsible healthy citizens. It was a beautiful thing because I was able to see a lot of youth start out at age 6 and become an amazing part of our community all the way through middle school. I think the skills that I developed at BGC that will serve me at internship are skills like being on time, being accountable for my actions, keeping a positive attitude, having good communication skills with parents, etc. At BGC I learned that it takes a lot of hard work and effort to keep consistent with every youth that attends BGC so that each youth knows your expectations of them and how they can always strive to learn and do their best. Through this process, I learned that it takes a lot of self discipline to be able to go to work everyday with a positive attitude and be ready to take on whatever comes your way. The worst job I ever had was helping my mom clean two buildings. It was the most exhausting, worthless job, that paid the least amount of money I've ever had. I had to make sure each building was clean so that my mom and I never received any letters of complaints from the staff that occupied the buildings. From this experience I know I learned how it feels to really work hard and get my hands dirty. Also, I always made sure to keep in mind that I was doing this to help my mom out so she didn't have to clean both buildings by herself. Which made me feel good in the end because I enjoy helping people.